Patrick May

3.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
75 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Patrick May is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Patrick May has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 18 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 9 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Patrick May's work include Neuroscience and Music Perception (57 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (52 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (27 papers). Patrick May is often cited by papers focused on Neuroscience and Music Perception (57 papers), Neural dynamics and brain function (52 papers) and Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation (27 papers). Patrick May collaborates with scholars based in Finland, United Kingdom and Germany. Patrick May's co-authors include Hannu Tiitinen, H Tiitinen, Risto Näätänen, K. Reinikainen, Ville Mäkinen, Paavo Alku, Nelli H. Salminen, Risto J. Ilmoniemi, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen and Kalle Palomäki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Patrick May

74 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Attentive novelty detection in humans is governed by pre-attentive sensory memory

1994 528 citations H Tiitinen, Patrick May et al. profile →
Mismatch negativity (MMN), the deviance-elicited auditory deflection, explained

2009 407 citations Patrick May, Hannu Tiitinen profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Patrick May Finland	24	2.5k	919	303	148	119	75	2.6k
Hannu Tiitinen Finland	30	3.2k 1.3×	1.4k 1.5×	383 1.3×	159 1.1×	320 2.7×	75	3.4k
Alexander Gutschalk Germany	25	2.1k 0.9×	486 0.5×	187 0.6×	153 1.0×	72 0.6×	60	2.4k
Andreas Widmann Germany	30	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	187 0.6×	163 1.1×	197 1.7×	82	2.9k
Molly J. Henry Germany	25	1.9k 0.8×	634 0.7×	158 0.5×	87 0.6×	138 1.2×	72	2.0k
Anne Caclin France	26	1.8k 0.7×	740 0.8×	273 0.9×	116 0.8×	116 1.0×	74	2.0k
Pierre Ahad Canada	12	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	198 0.7×	111 0.8×	246 2.1×	16	2.5k
Joel S. Snyder United States	25	2.1k 0.8×	738 0.8×	424 1.4×	90 0.6×	94 0.8×	81	2.3k
Sundeep Teki United Kingdom	21	1.5k 0.6×	431 0.5×	105 0.3×	163 1.1×	103 0.9×	32	1.7k
Alexandra Bendixen Germany	26	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 1.1×	223 0.7×	90 0.6×	96 0.8×	87	2.4k
Marie‐Hélène Giard France	26	2.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.6×	214 0.7×	370 2.5×	244 2.1×	36	3.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Patrick May

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Fields of papers citing papers by Patrick May

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Patrick May

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Patrick May. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Patrick May based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Patrick May. Patrick May is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Arena, Giuseppe, Thomas Gasser, Anne Grünewald, et al.. (2025). Methodological validation of Miro1 retention as a candidate Parkinson’s disease biomarker. npj Parkinson s Disease. 11(1). 270–270. 1 indexed citations

Brosch, Michael, et al.. (2024). Hemispheric difference of adaptation lifetime in human auditory cortex measured with MEG. Hearing Research. 458. 109173–109173.

Espinoza, Arturo I., Rachel C. Cole, Arun Singh, et al.. (2024). Resting-state EEG measures cognitive impairment in Parkinson’s disease. npj Parkinson s Disease. 10(1). 12 indexed citations

Espinoza, Arturo I., Patrick May, Arun Kumar Singh, et al.. (2022). A pilot study of machine learning of resting-state EEG and depression in Parkinson’s disease. Clinical Parkinsonism & Related Disorders. 7. 100166–100166. 4 indexed citations

May, Patrick, et al.. (2019). Explaining event-related fields by a mechanistic model encapsulating the anatomical structure of auditory cortex. Biological Cybernetics. 113(3). 321–345. 10 indexed citations

May, Patrick, et al.. (2016). Capturing contextual effects in spectro-temporal receptive fields. Hearing Research. 339. 195–210. 2 indexed citations

May, Patrick, et al.. (2015). Memory Stacking in Hierarchical Networks. Neural Computation. 28(2). 327–353. 6 indexed citations

Alku, Paavo, et al.. (2012). Cortical processing of degraded speech sounds: Effects of distortion type and continuity. NeuroImage. 60(2). 1036–1045. 5 indexed citations

Yrttiaho, Santeri, Patrick May, Hannu Tiitinen, & Paavo Alku. (2011). Cortical encoding of aperiodic and periodic speech sounds: Evidence for distinct neural populations. NeuroImage. 55(3). 1252–1259. 3 indexed citations

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Alku, Paavo, et al.. (2010). Responsiveness of the human auditory cortex to degraded speech sounds: Reduction of amplitude resolution vs. additive noise. Brain Research. 1367. 298–309. 8 indexed citations

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Pekkonen, Eero, et al.. (2010). The effects of healthy aging on auditory processing in humans as indexed by transient brain responses. Clinical Neurophysiology. 121(6). 902–911. 19 indexed citations

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Pekkonen, Eero, et al.. (2010). The effects of cortical ischemic stroke on auditory processing in humans as indexed by transient brain responses. Clinical Neurophysiology. 121(6). 912–920. 10 indexed citations

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Liikkanen, Lassi A., et al.. (2007). The right-hemispheric auditory cortex in humans is sensitive to degraded speech sounds. Neuroreport. 18(6). 601–605. 18 indexed citations

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May, Patrick, et al.. (2007). The contribution of high frequencies to human brain activity underlying horizontal localization of natural spatial sounds. BMC Neuroscience. 8(1). 78–78. 1 indexed citations

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Tiitinen, Hannu, Nelli H. Salminen, Kalle Palomäki, et al.. (2005). Neuromagnetic recordings reveal the temporal dynamics of auditory spatial processing in the human cortex. Neuroscience Letters. 396(1). 17–22. 36 indexed citations

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Mäkinen, Ville, Patrick May, & Hannu Tiitinen. (2005). The use of stationarity and nonstationarity in the detection and analysis of neural oscillations. NeuroImage. 28(2). 389–400. 11 indexed citations

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Palomäki, Kalle, Hannu Tiitinen, Ville Mäkinen, Patrick May, & Paavo Alku. (2005). Spatial processing in human auditory cortex: The effects of 3D, ITD, and ILD stimulation techniques. Cognitive Brain Research. 24(3). 364–379. 82 indexed citations

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May, Patrick & H Tiitinen. (2004). Auditory scene analysis and sensory memory: the role of the auditory N100m.. PubMed. 2004. 19–19. 11 indexed citations

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Mäkinen, Ville, Patrick May, & Hannu Tiitinen. (2004). Human auditory event-related processes in the time-frequency plane. Neuroreport. 15(11). 1767–1771. 17 indexed citations

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Mäkinen, Ville, Hannu Tiitinen, & Patrick May. (2004). Auditory event-related responses are generated independently of ongoing brain activity. NeuroImage. 24(4). 961–968. 122 indexed citations

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